Sandspur Goals Freshman

Because the Sandspur has no more issues this year, I want to now focus on the freshman class. I am going to be a peer mentor next year and my class subject is essentially about the history of writing. We go from Oral speech, to books, to Ipads. Well along with the campus media tours I will be doing for my class, I will speak to explorations about requiring a tour for all classes. This is to get their foot in the door and know that RTV, the Sandspur and WPRK do exist. Also when I was a freshman the class had an assignment each week where we have to read a newspaper and write a response or reflection to an article. We will be continuing this assignment and I will advocate that the students should use the Sandspur to get their articles from. This will at least make my students read the sandspur, after that I can encourage them to write for the sandspur and get them extra credit. Hopefully at least one or two of them will like the writing experience and continue to write for it.

College Media and Convergence

This was a very important reading in terms of the success of our college media. Convergence sums up what this class was meant to be, a meeting place for RTV. The Sandspur, and WPRK. It is promotes synergy between all three organizations. The average kid at Rollins wants to do whatever the next guy is doing. Most students are just trying to find their place and become “cool”. If campus media can unite and become a part of this campus instead of being almost invisible to the student body we can recruit bigger numbers and produce a better product. We do this by really making an impact in the fall and recruiting freshman. If we come out strong next semester and prove campus media’s relevance, purpose and benefits. We can grab many freshman before they become jaded like the average student.

VICNEt Reading 4.23

This article is about the different roles the internet plays in “community”. The internet is one of the biggest innovations man has created. The internet can establish a local community as well as connect one globally; these communities can be affected socially or economically. The author begins this article talking about his frequent “travels” to Australia through the internet. The internet provides a way for learning about different places and cultures like the author did, and it also can be used to meet new people. The internet can also be used to create new products as well selling products. VICNET created an online community that with its affordable access to computer networking. This gives the Victorian citizens a voice and further promotes the “community” feeling.

Sandspur & the Winter Park Day Nursery.

I just wrote an article in the Sandspur about my experiences with the Winter Park Day Nursery. The article stands as a public service announcement for students to go out and volunteer. Hopefully it will be printed in the Sandspur so I can bring it to the day nursery and complete half of my community outreach project. In this article I was giving my personal testimony about last semester’s events with. In this article I was giving my personal testimony about last semester’s events with WPDN. It is giving a student’s perspective on volunteering and it’s about how I bonded with the staff and the children of the Winter Park Day Nursery. It is giving a student’s perspective on volunteering and it’s about how I bonded with the staff and the children of the Winter Park Day Nursery. This is an article I am not writing as a requirement for the week, I wrote it to hopefully do some good for my friends at the Winter Park Day Nursery.

Outreaching to a community near you!! (Reading)

This week’s reading was about Community Outreach. The article points out 7 strategies for media to build customer loyalty and establish a brand within your community. This is very important in gaining consistent readership for the Sandspur and Consistent viewership for WPRK and RTV. All of these strategies seem simple enough and I have also seen these strategies used by different media outlets. When my group brainstorms and makes a plan on how we will outreach to the community this article will be used in thinking of ideas. I like the ideas of sponsoring a Community event and helping a charity because these things will get the community more involved with the Sandspur, RTV and WPRK

Outreaching to a community near you!! (Sandspur)

The next project we are working on is Community Outreach. This article we read had 7 different strategies to do this. These were all good strategies, but I saw two that I can actually do pretty easily. Since my Media Peace and Justice Course I have kept in contact with the Winter Park Day Nursery, this is a charitable organization. Because I go there often I can write an article about WPDN, and then bring a copy over to them. With the copy of the sandspur, they can then keep it next to their volunteer sign -up sheets and volunteers from the community will see the sandspur. This is doing things; it is putting more content in the sandspur, but is also beginning my community Outreach project.

Postman to Streetfeat

The article I read for today’s class talked about more of the role of the newspaper. The article began discussing “The Coast’s” attack on a profile in “The National Post”. A quote that really stood out to me was, “The paper is not a charity. It is a social and economic enterprise which generates income from both Sales and advertising. This is very true in my opinion. In another class, I am learning about propaganda. Neil Postman theorized that the news is now entertainment. Because of things like television and radio, news could now travel faster, but also travel more in a more entertaining way. Because of this, television, radio, and the newspaper all compete for ratings. The news that is distributed is handpicked more for entertainment value, not as much for relevance necessity. In the Sandspur we must find the balance between entertainment, and relevance. If we do not, then the paper will not be very successful. In conclusion, the Sandspur is not a charity, but we are always accepting donations!